before president obama arrives here, he is touring some must-win battleground states. he made two stops yesterday in iowa, including this one outside des moines. attended, we are told, by 10,000 people. the president has another big rally planned today in boulder, colorado. and that happens to be where we find our athena jones. hey, athena. >> reporter: hi, candy. on day two of what the campaign is calling their road to charlotte, the president speaks on yet another college campus. here at the university of colorado at boulder. we expect his message to be a lot like what we heard from him yesterday in iowa. another key battleground state where he spent part of its speech responding to what we heard from the republicans at their convention last week. let's listen to a little of what he had to say. >> despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, what they offered over those three days was, more often than not, an agenda that was better suited for the last century. [ applause ] >> it was a rerun. we'd seen it before. you might as well of watched it on a bl